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treatment vs cure

deleted_user
deleted_user
Perhaps we can define the difference between a treatment and a cure. That might help.
Science is still finding a cure for the common cold. For now we are inundated with treatments. Where do 'we' fit in? It's a tough battle. It's a tough disease. Searching, always searching. Hoping, always hoping.
kazinmich
kazinmich
My neuro told me that I'm lucky to be diagnosed now, that they hope to have a "cure" within 10 years. Now that I've had MS for a while and researched.. I'm just not sure?!? Like you said, they don't have a cure for the common cold. MS is like the common cold - a variance in symptoms and treatments per person. Most don't work, some help, none cure..

Im still hoping though!
kellygrn
kellygrn
Keep on believing. MS has been around for 100's of years & no one knows what causes it, how to stop.

We can only treat the symptoms. I am 59 years old & there will be nothing done in my life time.
deleted_user
deleted_user
yes, I'm a little confused on the studies that are being done now. I read that one is done to "fix" the myelin. Is this a cure, or just a medicine, because I think that even though the myelin gets fixed, our body is "designed" to mess up again. I don't know, but, I am praying for something-a cure, or even oral medicines like the injectable ones...
deleted_user
deleted_user
Do you even feel like your treatment helps? Mike's MS is getting very bad and we don't know... is it the course of the disease, or side effects from all the drugs? His doctors say he may have progressed faster with no treatment. Faster than what I wonder? It seems like this was a swift decline from day one!
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